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Whilst you’ll know a lot of films that Donald Sutherland has starred in, Apprentice To Murder isn’t one of the films on most peoples list, now that doesn’t mean its a bad film, it just doesn’t seem to surface too much in the conversations of film geeks But is it worth checking out. Well yes…

OUT NOW For his tenth feature, Terry Gilliam(aged 64 at the time) (Time Bandits, Twelve Monkeys) adapted Mitch Cullin’s celebrated cult novel Tideland, a work he once described as “Alice in Wonderland meets Psycho through the eyes of Amélie.” and a film that is ‘seen through the eyes of a child. To escape her unhappy…

The highly anticipated King Cohen, the true story of writer, producer, director, creator and all-around maverick, Larry Cohen, has now hit VOD from Dark Star Pictures. Cohen, best known for resourceful low-budget horror and thriller films that combine social commentary with prerequisite scares and welcome humor, is responsible for celluloid classics including Black Caesar, It’s Alive, Q: The Winged…

From filmmaker and film historian Christophe Espenan comes The Coolest Guy Movie Ever — a fascinating documentary about the making of the classic World War II adventure film The Great Escape Before todays action heroes such as Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, and Robert Downey Jr. there was Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Charles Bronson who for decades represented…

Its not easy being a film fan sometimes. Of course we never run out of films to watch, but when you watch a film that you feel is a ‘gem’ then you sit around and wait for the filmmakers of that ‘gem’ to bring out another film that will be just as good, give you…

I wasnt sure what to expect when I sat down this week to watch Red Sparrow, the latest home release featuring Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games Quadrilogy) and directed by Francis Lawrence ( Director of all The Hunger Games movies bar the first one). I figured Red Sparrow would be a decent film, but would…

A film by York Alec Shackleton Nicolas Cage starring in a film based on real events, might sound a bit odd, but remember he has done this before. In Oliver Stones World Trade Centre and also Oliver Stones Snowden, But in 211, this is a very different role for Nicolas Cage who has spent the…